Nigel Farage cries persecution, nobody wants to be his banker after ties to Russia

Should businesses be allowed to choose their customers?

There is already laws in place for necessities such as energy and water.

Lads shilling for 59 year old racist grifters will never not be hilarious.

Part of me wonders if some of them are living in the hope that if they defend Farage loud enough and often enough that he’ll be *so thankful* for their efforts in combating the *leftist loonies* on an Irish discussion forum…that he’ll invite them onto Talking Pints for a room temperature beer while they regale their tales of heroism to an assembled audience of gammons.

If any of them actually harbour such a daydream….I’m afraid I have some very upsetting news for them….

I think they want his behaviour to be normalised. Getting in everyone face being racist or homophobic without facing any consequences.

So when they see his racism and homophobia having real, actual consequences it’s an affront to them.

Thankfully most people don’t want to live in a world where spewing vile hatred and unsubstantiated blame is the norm - and they hate being reminded of it.

None of that could happen because this isn't about bank accounts.

Your point is ?

I would be fine with anyone antisocial person been refused discretionary services. I actually believe in freedom of choice and that extends to corporations as much as to individuals. If a bank wants to build a profile of "nice customers" then they can do so and face any negative consequences of chucking out the arseholes. Its a very bad and slippery slope to attempt to remove peoples discretionary choices by law. This is what the Tories are attempting in the UK with their ban of Boycott and Divestment of Israel legislation.

I suspect that people on the right of politics only have a problem with freedom of choice when it cuts against them.

Farage still has a bank account.

He lost access to privaliged services because he didn't have enough money and has been offered similar services in NatWest which caters to a broader (I.e. less rich) group of people.

By law, you have a right to a bank account in the UK.

Do you think a business should be able to choose who they do business with if its not a legal requirement?

I do notice none of those defending farage dares answer that, everyone else is happy to, as the nigel club know it lays their hypocrisy bare for all to see (don't worry, admitting it or not, everyone knows, just as you now know what a bank really thinks about you ;)

(There is also a lot of farage defenders who don't know the difference between an account and services and fly away when the difference is pointed out).

I don't care what your opinions of them are, it seems that the banks and the public do not share your disdain since they are not faced with the same problem as Farage. But if Coutts were to close their accounts (see the irony in this statement) then I would be fine with it.

I imagine Nige will now take the time to self reflect on this and not try monetise this by bleating to the willing idiots?

He was a regular contributor to RT television a banned Kremlin financed propeganda outlet, so you can climb down off that moral high horse there. Good job he found a new grift in GB News.

Farage and others taking money from Russia or Russian outlets in the mid 2010s is not at all implausible. There was a lot of sneaking admiration for Putin among the far right and Brexiteer crowd. Johnson and his missus are another two suspected of having links to them.